Stefan Jovanović is an artist whose practice sits at the intersection of performance, sculpture and healing. As a first-generation immigrant from the former republic of Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists, and a descendent of transgenerational political persecution, his work explores issues of collective trauma, the creation of art that repairs ruptures of personal and archetypal identity through the creation of myth in the search for home and belonging.

He is an ARB-accredited architect, originally trained at the Architectural Association (AA Dipl). He is also a trained therapist and healer, certified as a practitioner in the modalities of Somatic Experiencing®, Family Systemic Constellations, NeuroAffective Touch® and currently completing his Focusing Oriented Therapy certification. His creative practice of maximalist myth-making uses archetypes and narrative-based story-telling in site-specific locations, theatres, galleries, museums and the outdoors.

His debut show, Constellations, premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in 2019. Subsequently he was co-commissioned by Sadler's Wells and Birmingham International Dance Festival to create a mid-scale outdoor show, Drumming in the Hall of the Mountain, which premiered in September 2022 at Derby Festé.

He has presented performances and exhibited at Siobhan Davies Dance, Asylum Chapel, and Stone Nest in London, Dance4 (Nottingham), DanceXchange (Birmingham) and Déda (Derby). Stefan regularly teaches at Independent Dance, the Royal College of Art, the London Contemporary Dance School, Goldsmiths University, Oxford Brookes University, UCA Canterbury, and the AA. 

He was a What Now? resident artist at Independence Dance (2014), received the DanceWEB Scholarship at ImpulsTanz International Festival of Dance (2016), was a New Museum IdeasCity Athens Fellow (2016), and a member of the Sadler’s Wells Summer University (2015-2018). His collaborators include Katye Coe, Frank Bock, Eva Martinez, Curtis Oland, Jack Hardy, Shannon Stewart, Maëva Berthelot, Yen-Ching Lin, Makiko Aoyama, Maxwell Sterling, Kenichi Iwasa, Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Pau Aran Gimeno and Mark Lorimer. He has guested for Tanztheater Wuppertal/Pina Bausch & Musée de la Danse/Boris Charmatz. In 2019 he assisted Dr. Peter Levine & Betsy Polatin in their workshop Trauma in the Public Eye.